The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-02-03

the counties of Adams, York, Dauphin, Cum
oerland Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, Somerset;
ana 1of Virginia the counties of Fairfax,
Loudon. Clark, Warrenton, Shenandoah, Fau-
quier, Prince William, Rappahannock Stafford,
Culpeper, Page Rockingham, Madison, Orange,
Spotsylyani King George, Greene Augusta,
Highland, Bath, Albemarle, Westmorel and
Northumberland, Richmon d, Lancaster, Es-
sex, Mlddlesex, King. and Queen. Gloucester,
| York, Matthews, Nelson, Rock Bird ge. Allie
gany, Botetourt, Amherst. B uckingha m, Flu
vana and Appomattox.
The second area, located in the States Of
North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee.
| Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky,
Arkansas and Texas is, commercially speak
ing, OF the very greatest importance to BaItl-
more, and is holly contested for. The stron gest
competitors for the trade of the first
slx-named states are Boston, New York and
Philadelphia. but reference to tonnage stat E.
ment of three of the Southern lines, sho VS.
that Baltimore secured the largest percenta go
OF the trade. The other competitors, denom-
mated as of the second order are the Southern
cities-Norfolk, Richmond, Wilmington, Char
lotte, Charleston, Columbia, Augusta, Macon,
Atlanta, Savannah, Montgomery, Mobile and
Memphis.
Already in some branches of trade these
markets have become quite prominent and
considerable competition may be looked for.
But Tor these local or domestic opponents (who
draw their supplies largely from this point)
Baltimore would control to greater extent
excepting products of the West) the trade Of
these sections the chief hindrance to when is
the ability OF these markets to distribute more
quickly and at somewhat lower freight, as also
to the fact that Baltimore cannot directly mar.
ket the products OF the said local territory.
This competition is not detrimental to this
city as rejecting her inability to supply goods
at lower prices, but operates from the necessity
OF replacing stocks in small quantities.; on the
= Dali,
terest, and the privilege of receiving from first
hands, attract these same buyers in advance of
the seasons wants, so that the permanen cy of
the city's traffic may not be considered as af-
fected thereb%
/ In this second area also, particularly in the
States of Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky Ten
nesSee Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, West
! ern competition becomes very pressing. chiefly
from the cities of st. Louis, Louisville, Cincin
natl and Chicago and other Western and
South western cities of the second class, SUCH
as Memphis, Little Rock, Mobile, Nashv ille
| Houston &c. These markets monopolize to q
certain extent the distribution of the products
of the West, viz: Agricultural products, live
stock, and the manufactures of wood and iron,
agricultural implements, hardware, &C., also
the products of the mines. In other classes of
goods, as we'll, this competition is becoming
formidable.
I'm the third area-that comprised in parts of
the near Western and Southwestern States as
parts of Ohio, Indiana West Virginia and
Pennsylvanla-competl comes from both
directions-Boston, New York and Philadei-
phia in the East, and Cincinnati, Chicago and
Pttsburg in the West and from markets of
the second class, such as Parkersburg, Wheel
ing and Columbus.
This area is the smallest and, perhaps the
most holly contested of any of the sections al
luded to, because all of our commercial rea-
tons in this territory must be carried on in
the line of the greatest commercial resistance,
or in the direction of the greater number of
sources of supply for commodities moved.
Confessng to the difficulties in the path, the
past gives encouragement that in this section
increase of traffic will be gained year by year,
and resolutely maintained
There are few lines of goods included in
| the foregoing which embrace wider field in
their distribution, such as straw goods, leather,
| millinery, paper, coal and naval stores, which
are in part originally produced in Baltimore.
These find market throughout every state
and territory, as also foreign fruits, chemicals,
| iron and steel, and all other articles originating
here through being directly imported at this
| port.
The export distribution includes cotton,
grain and Hour live animals petroleum, to-
! DaccCsSsgss' coOperage materials In this branch
comtsa4asF'n proasais as follo X; nthS', al
Atlantic and Gulf ports grain and flour, Mon
treal, Boston, New Y York Philadelphia and
New Orleans; live stock. Boston, New York,
Philadelphia; petroleum. New York, Philade-
phia; tobacco, New York.
Advantages of Baltimore Manufac-
turing Centre.
Of natural or legislative advantages offered
to those who seek the investment of capital in
manufacturing enterprises the City OF Balti
more may claim to be in possession to an
unusual extent certainly second to no other
city in the country The boundaries include
large tracts of unoccuped space, to be had by
rental or purchase, on favorable terms, which
are favorably located, whether by stream or
river, on the line of the basin or by the shore
leading TO the broad bay. Besides these, within
70 1tS tba hur ora
advantages in streams capable Of affording
ample power that only wait to be utilized. In
some cases free ground. for term of years, is
offered to those who may establish manufac-
tories.
The neighboring soil is rich in ores and ma
terials in constant requistion in certain
branches of manufacture. Iron limestone,
slate chronic iron ore, steatite, mica, emery,
kaoline. firebrlck clays, pottery clays, sand of
superior quality for glass manufactured are
found in the neigh borhood, some of them OF
unrivaled excellence. Our proximity to the
exhaustless coal fields of Maryland, Pennsvl-
vania and West Virginia, with the convent
ences of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, the
Baltimore and Ohio, Northern Central and
| Western Maryland railroads-two OF these
lines bringing the article to the waters edge
| sJbstantiate this as the cheapest seaport for
fuel in the United States. Wood arrives in
abundant supply, by sailing vessels, from the
country bordering on the Chesapeake and its
tributaries and from the Carolnas.
line CITY government mas wisely exempted
A from taxation all manufacturing "plant'
\ within its jurisdiction, and as the expendi-
lures necessa rly in this direction often absorb
two-thrds 90 of the capital invested this leg
isation, so nearly amounting to the exemption
of capital itself, presents advantages too OBJ
vious to be overlooked. With equal liberality,
| water for these purposes is charged at an al
most nominal rate by the authorities. Neither
Of these may be looked upon as spasmodic acts
of legislation, nor is there the remotest proba-
bllity that the latter privilege will be with
drawn, as the supply OF 200 gallons
per day leaves about 100 900 gallons to be
used i'll manufacturing
The provision markets are at all times well
supplied, and with the regular succession of
the seasons produ ctions. Few cities have such
abundance at such reasonable prices. The
climate is as near perfection as need be; we are
spared the rigors of winter in their extreme
severity and are exempted from endemics and
epidemics. The conditions certainly fovor-
ably affect labor, which is plentiful and at low
wages. There are few cities where the laborer
can live so comfortably and economically be-
meath his own roof, tenement houses being
things unknown. Ii is literally true that
every laborer may here have his own domicile.
and protected to that extent, contamination
must proceed from without and not from
within.
Equally great are the opportunities for the
interchange of tine raw material for the manu-
featured article. Nearer the petroleum region
than Philadelphia; at point where the Sus-
quehanna hemlock, Carolina yellow pine and
| Tabor nd CpIa